Наблюдения върху общественото и политическото значение на Македонския научен институт в България и в чужбина (1923 – 1947 г.)
Observations on the public and political significance of the Macedonian Scientific Institute in Bulgaria and abroad in the period 1923 – 1947

Summary/Abstract: The Macedonian Scientific Institute, established in 1923, went be yond its role as a scientific and cultural centre and quickly occupied an important place in the social and political processes in Bulgaria, becoming a tribune of the Macedonian Bulgarians and an instrument of their struggle to defend the Bulgarian character of Macedonia. With its overall activity, MSI strove to protect the rights of the Mac edonian Bulgarians, persecuted and oppressed both in Royal and then in the Federal communist Yugoslavia alike. It was resolutely opposed to Serbianization, and in the last years of its existence, to Macedonianization, carried out in the Vardar and the Pirin parts of Macedonia. Recognizing this role, the government of the Patriotic Front, which came to power on 9th September 1944, dominated almost completely by the Bulgarian Communist Party, in favour of and in coordination with the authorities of Tito’s Yugoslavia, decided to dissolve MSI and hand over the archive and all its property to the Yugoslav authorities.

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